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Patented Nov. 27, IQUID.

A. V. Gf.v J. T. HYSUBE.

D BI E R (Anvlcation filed May 2B, 1900.)

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UNITED y Sfrafrns afrnnrr errent ALPHENAS V. HYSORE AND JOHN 'l`.HYSORE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DRIER.

SPECIFICATION 'forming para of Lettere Patent No. eeae'e, dated November27, 1900.

Application flied May 26, 1900. Serial No. 181128- 'LNO Infidel-J To allwhom t may concern:

Beit known that we, ALPHENASV. Hvsonn and JOHN T. HYSORE, residents ofPhiladelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Extractors; and wedo hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to an improvement in extractors, and moreparticularly to pneumatic extractors for extracting liquid from solids,the object of the invention being to provide an improved extractor whichwill be adapted for the reception of stock in one end and air undercompression in the other end, the air being forced through the stock,serving to extract the liquid therefrom.

A further object is to provide an improved apparatus of theabove-mentioned character which will be especially adapted for cleansingand drying stock of any character.

With these objects in View the invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, aswill be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View in section illustratingour improvements, and Fig. 2 is a view in elevation taken at rightangles to Fig. 1.

A A represent two standards having enlarged lower ends secured to the`floor and provided at their upper ends with alined bearings 1 foroppositely-disposed trunnions 2, secured between the ends of a tank orreceptacle 3, open at its lower end and provided at its upper end with asemispherical closed top 4. The top at is provided with a hollowthreaded boss 5, in which one end of an airsupply pipe 6 is screwed andprovided with a suitable valve 7 to regulate the passage of airtherethrough.

The lower end of the tank or receptacle 3 is made at equidistant pointsaround its periphery with enlargements 8, having sockets therein for thereception of spherical heads 9 on threaded bolts 10, the threaded endsof which project through the slotted ends of a cross-brace 11 andprovided at their lower ends with nuts 12, screwed on said bolts tosecurely hold a perforated plate 13 between k receptacle projects beyondits bearing 1 and has secured thereon a worm-wheel 14, which meshes witha worm 15, mounted in a bracket 16, secured to the standard A, and saidworm is secured to a shaft 17, projecting to one side of the bracket 16and provided on one end. with a crank 18 for turning the same Aliquid-supply pipe ll-lcommunicates with the air-inlet pipe 6 and isprovided with a suitable valve 2O to regulate the passage of liquidtherethrough.

The operation of our improvements is as follows: When it is desired toplace material into the tank or receptacle 3, the crank 1S is operatedto turn the worm l5 and transmit motion to the worm-wheel to rotate thesame and turn the tank or receptacle upside down, when the brace 11 andperforated plate 13 can be removed by simply loosening the nuts 12 andswinging the bolts 10 out of the slots in the brace. The material orstock to be treated is now placed in the receptacle, the perforatedplate 13 and brace 11 replaced, and the receptacle turned to its formerposition by means of the crank above described. The air-pipe 6 is nowscrewed into the boss 5 and the valve 7 turned to admit air underpressure into the receptacle on top of the material to be treated, andas the pressure of air increases it will pass through the material andout through perforated plate 13 and carry with it practically allmoisture in the material, leaving the same practically dry; but in orderto absolutely insure the complete drying of the material the compressedair can be heated to the desired temperature before being admitted intothe receptacle. When the material is thoroughly dry, the receptacle canbe given a quarter-turn, the brace 11. and plate 13 removed, and thepressure of air behind the material will force the latter out.

When the material to be treated should be cleansed before drying, thevalve 20 in liquidpipe 19 will be opened simultaneously with the Valve 7in air-pipe 6, and the compressed air passing over pipe 19 will atomizethe IOO liquid, or, in other Words, be thoroughly impregnated therewith,and as the mixed air and liquid passes through the material to betreated it will thoroughly cleanse the same, when the valve inliquid-pipe 19 can be closed and the dry air passed through the materialto remove any moisture deposited during the cleansing operation.

Various slight changes might be resorted to in the general form andarrangement of the several parts described without departing from thespirit and scope of our invention, and hence we would have it understoodthat we do not wish to limit ourselves to the precise details set forth,but consider ourselves at liberty to make such slight changes andalterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of our invention.

Having fully described our invention, what We claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In an extractor, a receptacle open at one end provided with aperforated head eXtending across said open end, said receptacle providedat its other end with an inlet for compressed air.

2. An extractor consisting of an invertible receptacle open at one end,a removable perfor-ated head extending across said open end and anair-inlet at the other end of the receptacle.

In an extractor, the combination of a receptacle open at one end andrevolubly supported, means for rotating the same, a perforated plateremovably secured on the open end of said receptacle and extendingacross said open end and means at the closed end of said receptacle foradmitting air under pressure.

et. In an extractor, the combination with standards, of a tank orreceptacle open at one end and revolubly supported on said standards,socketed enlargements at the open end of said tank or receptacle, boltsconnected with said enlargements, a cross-brace adapted to be securedover the open end of said receptacle by means of nuts on said bolts, anda perforated plate secured between the open end of the receptacle andthe brace and extending across said open end, and means at the closedend of said tank for the attachment of an air-inlet pipe.

5. An extractor comprisingacylinder closed at one end and having anopening at its other end equal in diameter to the diameter of thecylinder, a perforated plate removably attached to the cylinder andextending across said open end thereof and an inlet-pipe communicatingwith the other end of said cylinder.

6. In an extractor, the combination with a receptacle for material to betreated, of means for permitting the entrance into said receptacle ofmixed air and liquid under pressure to pass through the material insa'id receptacle and means for permitting the discharge of the air andmoisture containing the foreign substance extracted from the materialtreated.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

ALPHENAS V. HYSORE. JOHN T. HYSORE.

Witnesses:

JOHN P. ADAMS, ALFRED H. DAWSON.

